The Syrian Army Tiger Forces have made a large progress against ISIS terrorists in the province of Raqqah. The Tiger Forces liberated a number of villages, including Jubb Ghanum, Jubb al Abyad, Madakhah, and Bir Inbaj, the Rusafa oil field, the Rusafa junction and reached the Ithriyah-Tabqah road southwest of the area controlled by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

Government forces continued developing momentum in the area and advanced in the direction of Habbari oil field with a wider goal to clear the area east of the Khanasser-Iithriyah road from vestiges of the ISIS force. According to some pro-government sources, the Habbari field and the nearby areas were already liberated by the army. However, there are a lack of photos and videos from the area because of a military censorship imposed by the military.

The gains were achieved amid little clashes with ISIS terrorists. A major part of elite ISIS units had been redeployed to the provinces of Homs and Deir Ezzor.

Meanwhile, the army, the National Defense Forces (NDF), Liwa al-Quds, Hezbollah and other pro-government units, backed up by the Russian Aerospace Forces, broke ISIS defense lines in the countryside of Palmyra and fully captured the Arak town, the Arak field and the T3 Pumping Station.

According to reports, more pro-government units are deploying to Palmyra in order to support the government advance on the ISIS-held town of Sukhna located en route to Deir Ezzor. However, ISIS forces deployed at the Huwaisis village north of the Tiyas Airbase still pose a threat to supply lines of any government force that may advance on Sukhna.

The US military has deployed a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) near At Tanf in southeastern Syria, according to the mainstream media. The system was moved from Jordan. The HIMARS deployment dramatically strengthens the US military presence in the area and poses a direct threat to Syrian government forces deployed northeast of At Tanf. Earlier this month, the army and its allies reached the border with Iraq and started setting up fortifications there. Thus, the both sides are considering a possibility of military escalation at the Syrian-Iraqi border.

The SDF continued clashing with ISIS in the city of Raqqah after the isolation of the terrorist stronghold from the northern, western and eastern directions. The SDF is now in control of Al Jazrah, al-Sinaa, and a part of industrial area south of al-Sinaa.

The SDF operation in Raqqah came amid another escalation between Kurdish SDF units and pro-Turkish militants in northern Aleppo. According to pro-SDF sources, over 30 pro-Turkish militants have been killed in the clashes in the area.

The more the battle for Raqqah takes time, the more opportunities Syrian government forces obtain to reach the city of Deir Ezzor before the US-led coalition decides that it needs to capture this oil rich area by itself.

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As long as Zion’s proxy mercenary terrorists could abuse the local population as human shields in the densely populated heartland of Syria, the SAA and allies’ advance was slow and arduous.

Now that the war theater has shifted to the Syrian deserts, nothing can hold the coalition’s fast advance back. The Zionists’ Islamist invaders are basically sitting duck in the sand waiting to be ‘taken out’ by artillery, infighting and airstrikes.

What an inglorious end of Zion’s caliphate, that only a year ago was discussed so eagerly and enthusiastically by all Zionstream media across the board.

Luckily for Zion, it still can play the Kurdistan card. But will it be worth worth even a fraction of what Washington’s think tanks have declared it to be once the Syrian and Iraqi governments have secured all oil wells?

Come on, it´s very easy to solve: just the russians deploy 3000 parachuters
east of Tanf and hort of the iraqi border, with middle weight weapons and secure a strip of 50 km along the border in the southwestern direction.
Then install two batteries of S400 and medium range missiles over there.
The advance of the SAA to Deir EsZoor will complete the move.
And let the americans whine as much as they want, this won´t change their russofobia anyway, nothing will.
Within two or three months Putin draws the parachuters back to moscow as the syrians occupy the region. The agreement with the triad Kurds/Iraq/syria and turkey is a further development for coming years, when the Kremlin will have completely properly armed the syrian forces and Iran will have a voice the the process.

@augusto. President Putin only sent in his Russians after the Syrians had shown they were determined to defend their country, and were loyal to their president Dr. Assad. Putin respects moral character, and he saw that in Dr. Assad the Syrians possessed a leader who showed courage, intelligence and restraint; Syria was worth supporting, they would not let him down. At first, in 2011, Putin limited Russian aid solely to nonplussing NATZO by jamming NATZO missiles with superior Russian technology. Technological aid was expanded to upping the maintenance technique of the Syrian Army for their own weapons. Then air cover for the liberation of Palmyra, and that famous Russian declaration of civilized values by holding a concert of Russian music for Dr. Assad and the Syrian army in the UNESCO World Heritage site. It was only in late 2015-2016 when NATZO (like Hitler at Kursk) threw in hordes of fresh ISIS troops with heavy weapons and NATZO air cover in a last mad gamble to regain Palmyra & Aleppo, that Russian troop involvement became serious. The main hard slog of clearing Syria of NATZO’s Daesh mercenaries was done and is being done, by the Syrian Army and their allies Hizb’Allah & Iran (with Iraq soon to enter on the Allied side). If you think that 3,000 Russian paratroops can suddenly make a dramatic ending by clearing 50 km of border snap! just like that, then you have a promising career ahead as top military advisor to Hollywood or the White House.

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